Long lines of container ships queued up outside major U.S. ports on Thursday as the biggest dockworker strike in nearly half a century entered its third day preventing unloading and threatening shortages of everything from bananas to auto parts.

The post These U.S. Ports Are Affected By the Dock Strike appeared first on Mandatory. The political world is keeping close tabs on the port strike on the East and Gulf coasts, with key swing states bracing for the economic fallout of a shutdown.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The 45,000 dockworkers who went on strike Tuesday for the first time in decades at 36 U.S. ports from Maine to Texas may wield the upper hand in their standoff with port operators over wages and the use of automation.